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Miley Cyrus, Michael Bublé Tip Ariana Grande Into 3rd Place

Miley Cyrus’s Plastic Hearts debuts at No.

Miley Cyrus, Michael Bublé Tip Ariana Grande Into 3rd Place

By FYI Staff

Miley Cyrus’s Plastic Hearts debuts at No. 1 on the Billboard Canadian Albums chart, scoring the highest song downloads, and the third-highest album sales and on-demand streams for the week. It is her fourth chart-topping album under both her name and her Hannah Montana alter ego, and first since Bangerz in October 2013.


Michael Buble’s Christmas jumps 4-2, with the second-highest on-demand stream total for the week.

Pop Smoke’s Shoot For The Stars Aim, For The Moon moves 5-3 with the highest on-demand stream total for the week. The album has now surpassed The Weeknd’s After Hours as the most consumed album so far in 2020.

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Ariana Grande’s former chart-topping album Positions moves 6-4 and another former No. 1 album, AC/DC’s Power Up, falls to No. 5, despite picking up the highest album sales total for the week.

The lone new entry in the top 50 this week belongs to Bad Bunny’s El Ultimo Tour Del Mundo at No. 23. It is his second charted album this year, following YHLQMDLG, which peaked at No. 17 in March.
– All data courtesy of SoundScan with additional detail provided by MRC’s Paul Tuch.

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Influence Media Wins Bid to Acquire Anthem Entertainment’s Music Assets
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Influence Media Wins Bid to Acquire Anthem Entertainment’s Music Assets

Sources say the BlackRock-backed company bid slightly above $650 million for the assets, though the deal has yet to close.

Apparently, the third time really can be the charm, as sources say Influence Media Partners has emerged as the winner in the auction for the music assets of Anthem Entertainment, the Canadian music firm that houses music publishing assets and recorded masters royalties from the likes of Rush and Timbaland.

While two earlier efforts to sell the firm in 2017 and 2022 came up short, sources suggest that in the third go-round, the successful Goldman Sachs-shopped deal saw at least two bids come in above the $600 million mark, even though most other bidders were said to be in the $500 million to $600 million range before dropping out. In all, sources suggested that about a dozen suitors kicked the tires on Anthem.

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